From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: "'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Regexp for matching (defun lines
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 02:08:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS7PR10MB52325F91C2BF8E19415B6B2CF3B22@DS7PR10MB5232.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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> > > > (concat
> > > > "^\\s-("
> > > > (regexp-opt...)
> > > > t)
> > > > "\\s-+\\(\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)")
> > >
> > > I see that you use "\\sw". What is the advantage verses "[[:alnum:]-
> _]"
> >
> > No special advantage. You can include any other
> > chars you want, so you can pick up, e.g.,
> >
> > (defun foo!@$%^&*+={}/:42<>? ()
> > (message "Hello"))
> >
> > Perfectly legitimate, and none of those chars
> > even require escaping.
>
> Meaning that \\sw is superior to [[:alnum:]-_], right ?
No.
\\sw means word-char syntax.
[[:alnum:]-_] means alphanumeric- or symbol-char syntax.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-01 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-31 19:23 Regexp for matching (defun lines Heime
2024-07-31 19:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-31 20:14 ` Heime
2024-07-31 21:02 ` Drew Adams
2024-07-31 21:15 ` Heime
2024-08-01 2:11 ` Drew Adams
2024-07-31 21:29 ` Heime
2024-08-01 2:08 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2024-08-01 2:24 ` Heime
2024-08-01 3:34 ` Drew Adams
2024-08-01 4:15 ` Heime
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